CSCS — Centre for the Study of Culture and Society

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Web Name: CSCS — Centre for the Study of Culture and Society

WebSite: http://cscs.res.in

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As part of its interest in working towards changing thehigher education sector in India, the Centre for the Study of Culture andSociety (CSCS), established in 1998, set up a Higher Education Cell in 2007 in collaboration with the Sir RatanTata Trust. The ground for this had been prepared when CSCS faculty membersTejaswini Niranjana and Mrinalini Sebastian had researched the history andpresent situation of Indian higher education to write up a Strategy Paper forthe Trust.The Paper listed the possible directions in whichindependent funding could help address the different kinds of crises in thesector – to do with inflexible institutional structures, outdated andnon-relevant curricula, poorly trained teachers, and lack of new resources forstudents. Announcing the CSCS Digital Innovations Fund. For more details see http://cis-india.org/raw/cscs-digital-innovation-fund The CSCS Digital Innovation Fund (CDIF) has been set up by the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS) and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) to encourage, host, and provide seed funding for the development of digital tools and infrastructure for arts, humanities, and social science research in India. The Fund’s priorities have been shaped by Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Lawrence Liang, Nishant Shah, Sitharamam Kakarala, Sumandro Chattapadhyay, Sunil Abraham, S.V. Srinivas, and Tejaswini Niranjana; and it is administered by the Researchers at Work (RAW) programme at CIS. More...

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